Film Review: ‘Mother and Child’
Advertisements ★★☆☆☆ Rodrigo García’s fourth feature Mother and Child (2009) is a multi-narrative story – reminiscent of the work of executive producer Alejandro González Iñárritu...
Directors Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett’s “Abigail” mashes up crime caper and monster movie, but fails to deliver fear or humor. Spoilery trailers and unoriginal characters overshadow promising elements, resulting in a dull, lifeless experience lacking creativity and wit.
★★★★☆ In Alex Garland’s Civil War, a group of journalists embark on a road trip to interview the US President amidst a second American Civil War, while exploring media’s dehumanizing relationship with violence.
★★★★☆ Having won the Jury Prize in 2013 for Like Father, Like Son and the Palme d’Or in 2018 with Shoplifters, Cannes favourite and Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda returns with Monster, a masterful work of intricate storytelling, complemented by a lovely score by the late Ryuichi Sakamoto.
★★★★★ Theodor Adorno famously wrote that poetry was not possible after Auschwitz, but is cinema? Billy Wilder certainly thought so, getting footage from the camps as evidence as much as anything else. Steven Spielberg, Claude Lanzmann, Alain Resnais and Roberto Benigni have all with differing degrees of success tried their hands.
Advertisements ★★☆☆☆ Rodrigo García’s fourth feature Mother and Child (2009) is a multi-narrative story – reminiscent of the work of executive producer Alejandro González Iñárritu...
Advertisements ★★☆☆☆ A great deal can be learned from looking at those involved in bringing hockey comedy Goon (2011) – starring American Pie’s Seann...
Advertisements ★★★☆☆ Despite her recent descent into reclusiveness, Margaret Thatcher remains one of the most divisive political figures of the 20th century, and so...
Advertisements ★★★★★ Woody Allen’s 1983 mockumentary Zelig – starring the great man himself in the mysterious title role and Mia Farrow as the geek-chic...
Advertisements ★★★★★ Woody Allen, director of Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) which stars Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Michael Caine, once said, “I am thankful...